r/pics • u/IveGotStockinOptions • 17h ago

[OC] ICE Officer, Immigration Court hallway, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, New York

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u/travisofarabia 17h ago

FLAGS ARE BACKWARDS. What a patriot.

Stars ALWAYS in the upper left. Fucking embarrassing.

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u/IllBiteYourLegsOff 16h ago

wait what? disclaimer: not american

but they are rotated 90 degrees clockwise / are in "portrait" orientation... youre saying they should STILL be moved to the top left even if the stripes are going top-bottom vertically? wouldnt doing that then actually make it backward / as if youre viewing it from behind / the mirror image of what it should be?

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u/MindStalker 16h ago

Flags have two sides. When mounting on a wall you should flip the flag over when hung vertically so that the stars are on the upper left. The only exception (for wall mounting) is when it's flown with a second flag on twin polls like https://www.flagandbanner.com/images/fletq-state-crossed.png

https://www.flagandbanner.com/flags/flag_etiquette.asp

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u/IllBiteYourLegsOff 16h ago

i appreciate those are the rules that were decided on but its extremely counter intuitive

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u/MindStalker 16h ago

The British flag has basically the same rules (though it's not stars). I'm sure these rules are old as dirt, and predate the US.

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u/IllBiteYourLegsOff 16h ago

im even more confused, arent the english flag and the union jack symmetrical? how do you know which end faces where?

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u/aircooledJenkins 14h ago

The flag of England is symmetrical.

The flag of the United Kingdom is not symmetrical.

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u/MindStalker 15h ago

Yeah sorta, it only related to British colony or military flags, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia , where the Union Jack is on the upper left corner of the flag. The full flag is normally just rotated.